| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
109 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
"Originally published in Spanish as Una novelita lumpen in 2002" -- Title page verso. |
| Summary |
"A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a young writer's fierce ambitions and intensely tender love of women. "Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime": so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager--"our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us"--she drops out of school, gets a crappy job, sees a terrible brightness at night, and drifts into bad company. Her little brother brings home two petty criminals who need a place to stay. As the four of them share the family apartment and plot a strange crime, Bianca learns she can drift lower... Electric, tense with foreboding, and written in jagged, propulsive short chapters, A Little Lumpen Novelita--one of the first novels Roberto Bolano ever published--delivers a surprising, fractured tale of taking control of one's fate" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Young women -- Fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
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Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction.
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Rome (Italy) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Added Author |
Wimmer, Natasha, translator.
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| Added Title |
Novelita lumpen. English
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| ISBN |
9780811223355 |
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0811223353 |
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